Inclusion Daily Express chronicles the barriers people with disabilities
face as they advocate to live and direct their lives. While many problems are
the same ones most people who do not have disabilities must address, some seem
more common with people who make up this diverse group (and the people who care
about them), such as poverty, discrimination, injustice, vulnerability,
inaccessibility, loneliness -- being on the outside.

Inclusion Daily Express looks at the progress being made to break down
the barriers to being meaningfully included, such as:

Architectural, technological and physical barriers to accessibility
and participation.

Laws and policies that allow people with disabilities to be excluded
and discriminated against.

Groups that work to take resources away from communities in order to
keep institutions, nursing homes and other large congregate living facilities
operating.

The public in general that fears people who appear, act, or think
differently than the "norm"or "average".

Experts who believe and teach that some people have less of a right
to live than others or that people with disabilities "drain" society.

People, including some medical professionals and researchers, who act
as if it is better to not live than to have a disability.

Employers who cannot see past a disability to a person's abilities
and potential.

People who act out of pity, to "rescue" people with disabilities from
what they believe is the "suffering" caused by the disability, rather than
vowing to work alongside people in the struggle to direct their own lives.

Those who refuse to embrace disability and difference as a fact of
life -- a natural part of the human condition.

You will also see information presented in respectful "People First"
language that acknowledges that a disability is just one part of who each of
us.